​Why we think that you should get tattooed at Pagan Tattoo in Edmonton

- Experience.For over 20 years, we've been striving to offer truly unique and custom tattooing to the Edmonton tattoo community. Our artists are custom design specialists with diverse experience across varied artistic mediums and are experts in their chosen styles and genres. We are lifelong creative people, who have focused our professional lives on the art-form of tattooing.

- Perspective.We have always stressed the importance of approaching any tattoo project, with the best information available. We call it RESEARCH. We pride ourselves in trying to fully understand the meanings, symbolism, and history attached to any image we are working into a custom tattoo.

- Playing to our strengths.We know what type of tattoos we excel at, and we know when it may be appropriate to refer you to someone else. We do a wide variety of tattoo styles, and we are open to lots of client input, but we really like to have a lot of creative control of the design. That's what you're paying us for; using our experience and skills to make the best tattoo we can in our own unique styles.

- Ethics.We have some in-house rules. Tattoos change a person forever. That's worth ensuring that the idea is well considered by all parties involved. We reserve the right to refuse to take on a project if we feel it's in bad taste, or artistically unrewarding or if the client seems to be making a impulsive decision.Our services are not available to anyone under the age of 18 years. Frankly, we prefer a mature clientele who make well considered choices.

- An adult environment.We have a very modest, simply adorned and uncluttered tattoo studio in south-central Edmonton. It is designed to give us the space and atmosphere conducive to good tattooing. It is not a hang-around spot for hipsters, scene kids or psychic vampires. There is no tattoo shop drama allowed. We are here to do serious work. You are paying serious money for that work. We get that.

- We are artists first. Yes we make tattoos. However, we view ourselves as professional artists working on commissioned works of art. We have a clearly defined process that includes carefully scheduled appointments, and we take deposits upfront as a surety for the time and effort we will put into your tattoo design. We will clearly answer any of your questions at the time of your consultation. A professional relationship is a two way street between artisan and client. We understand that relationship.

- Not a cookie-cutter style of tattooing. We are proud of our work. We strive to express our own sense of aesthetics in that work. A lot of modern tattooing has become part of a mass of repetitive copy-cat imagery; where rigid adherence to the trend has replaced the effort to be original.We are not interested in trends. We are interested in doing the best tattoo for you that we can.

I hope some of these thoughts have resonated with you. If they have, maybe you should contact us for your next tattoo project. Thanks for taking the time to look over our tattoo portfolios.